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Re: filesystem oops?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-02-04 22:43:41 CET

cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> > Question: don't we have to check that a given predecessor ID actually
> > exists anyway (i.e., there is a node for it in the fs?), once we think
> > we've calculated that predecessor?
>
> No. We would have never gotten the current ID if its predecessor
> hadn't existed.

Well, I thought really hard about this (saw the loop code in your
checkin that just runs backwards over the IDs), and couldn't think of
a circumstance (except for "svn obliterate") that would make this not
true. Whew. Thanks for clarifying.

-K

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